Abstract: Journalism and/or mass communication has been expanded as an academic discipline in many Sri Lankan state and private universities, and when carefully observed it is apparent that very less number of female graduates finds their career path in the print journalism field. In Sri Lanka, a majority of the prominent characters in the newspaper industry are men, whereas the role of women journalists is always a question. Hence, this study was conducted to find out the reasons for female media graduates to choose their profession as journalists in print media and to find out the reasons for female graduates to deny choosing their profession as print media journalists.